The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes epiphanies come in dreams. I had another one of those this morning as my brain was trying to coax my body into waking up. Not that I haven’t realized this before, and defied the knowledge. The scene was set in New Orleans, and…
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Vive la Liberté: Has American Patriotism Suffered a Fatal Blow?
Why Solving the Murder Mystery of the Coronavirus Origin is Politically Important
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Murder mysteries have never really been my thing. Back in the days prior to personal computers and the internet when reading popular books, my reading tended more to the international political thrillers of Robert Ludlum than the mysteries of Agatha Christie. Of course I…
Inside Washington Political Baseball: Long Hot Summer, More Discontent
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The era of the great American newspaper columnist went out with the end of the 20th century and the era of the mass circulation daily newspaper, roughly in the 2004-2005 time period as George W. Bush campaigned for and won reelection as president, a period I often…
Break Time is Over: Activists and Democrats Must Engage Now on Voting Rights
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Those of us who somehow survived the hellscape year of 2020 and the first half of 2021 and came away with a victory in the presidential election, made it through the Capitol insurrection, and beat COVID, deserved a break. We got one after receiving…
National Action on a Federal Voting Rights Law is Now Critical, Even if it Takes Eliminating the Jim Crow Era Senate Filibuster
The New American Journal Editorial Board – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, CBS and other news outlets won’t take a strong stand on this, we will. The time is now for national action to pass a federal voting rights law. If that means eliminating the filibuster in the…
Contemplating the Need for Courage on Memorial Day Weekend: Trump Must Pay for His Crimes
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — It’s Friday morning in the campground, the beginning of Memorial Day weekend, and I’ve taken my Nexium for acid reflux and I’m eating my daily banana with Jif creamy peanut butter for breakfast, trying not to get peanut butter on the keyboard. You…
Camping and Hiking in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. — When Americans and people from all over the world think of visiting a national park, or camping in the great outdoors in the United States, they often think of the big, famous parks out West like Yosemite in California, the Grand Canyon in…
Vaccinated People in DC Dance as CDC Relaxes Coronavirus Mask Requirements
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – An amazing thing happened at the time of our return to the nation’s capitol region in May. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a surprising announcement on Thursday, catching many people by surprise, including those who work in the White House. “If…
The View from Here: Back in Washington, D.C. Just in Time for the Brood X Cicada Invasion
Nomadland Steals the Show at Socially Distanced Academy Awards
New CIA Report Says We’re All Going to Die: Unless We Save Democracy
‘There is Some Good in This World and It’s Worth Fighting For’
Alabama’s Republican Legislature Wants to Ban Yoga – I Say Ban Hypocrisy
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – All of a sudden I’m feeling an unquenched desire to start practicing Yoga. Why? Maybe because I just heard that the conservative, Christian Republicans in the Alabama legislature are dead set on keeping it banned from public schools. If they don’t like it, it must be good.…
Take the Time to Think, Dream and be Happy
“It’s very difficult, in geography as in morality, to understand the world without leaving your own house.” – Voltaire Sunday Reader – A Think Piece – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Do you ever just take some time off to simply think? To dream? Experts in psychology say this is critical not only to…
Implications Good or Bad at Easter? Church Membership in the U.S. Falls Below a Majority for the First Time
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â As the capitalist Easter Bunny works overtime to deliver massive amounts of sugary chocolate to stores across America in time for the weekend to celebrate the fertility of spring and the alleged death and resurrection of a prophet named Jesus, pollsters and pundits are wringing their hands…
Don’t Get Mad as Hell: Turn Off the TV and Smell the Flowers
Bending the Arc of the Moral Universe Towards Justice Takes Vigilance
Spring Forward: Sleep Late, Eat, Drink and Be Merry – Then Get Busy Again Saving Democracy From Fascists
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Spring forward and sleep late. I know I did. The iPhone clock said 10:30. The devil who shall not be named is no longer tweet storming an insurrection against American democracy from the White House. A new sheriff is in town. People are already…
Bloody Sunday Anniversary Commemoration Goes Virtual in 2021 Due to COVID
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It was 56 years ago today (Sunday) that John Lewis led civil rights marchers north across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to face Alabama State Troopers and Dallas County sheriffs deputies on the other side with billy clubs, cattle prods and tear gas. By putting their…